TEMPO.CO, Yogyakarta - Geological Disaster Technology Research and Development Center (BPPTKG) in Yogyakarta announced that Mount Merapi has again spewed pyroclastic clouds in the past week from ...

Scientists think they’ve figured out how pyroclastic flows, fast-moving bringers of death during volcanic events, can travel such incredible distances and speeds despite the friction between the ...

After an eruption, DIY cushions of gas help searing torrents of gas, ash, and rock spread miles from their source within a matter of minutes. Pyroclastic flows contain a deadly combination of hot rock ...

The skeleton has been unearthed at Herculaneum. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The skeleton of a man killed by the deadly ...

Professor David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences at The Open University, was first keen to clear up a misconception. He said: “The cause of most deaths at the current eruption of Fuego ...

This is a false-colour satellite image of lava flowing from the Indonesian volcano that has already killed more than 250 people. The image, taken from the ASTER instrument on Nasa's Terra satellite, ...

Guatemala has been hit by a super-heated pyroclastic cloud almost a week after one of the country’s volcanic eruptions killed at least 110 people and left 200 others missing. The fragments of rock and ...

Volcanoes are increasingly recognized as agents and recorders of global climate variability, although deciphering the linkages between planetary climate and volcanism is still in its infancy. The ...

Scientists have discovered that the scorching material spewed from a volcano during eruptions generates a layer of air between it and the ground, allowing it to surf along at extreme speeds, ...

Mount Vesuvius rises over the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. In A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying Pompeii and the city of Herculaneum, which was even closer to the volcano's ...